This is not true of all varieties of novelist and screenwriter and the diarist-humorist type is another animal altogether. After a long pause, the woman responds, sphinxlike, “Yes. “Oh, you’re taking a course in conversation?” Martin’s character asks. Story” in which a table of gregarious lunchers is introduced to a mysterious guest who, they are told, has studied the art of conversation. It recalls the scene in Steve Martin’s 1991 comedy “L.A. winner (that’s National Book Award, not basketball), or blockbuster film writer. Walk into a crowded, humming party and spot the one person standing silent as a lamp in the shadows, or lurking against a wall absorbing someone else’s harangue, and you may well have found your future N.B.A. It’s remarkable how many novelists and screenwriters are not chatty people.
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